Mining IGS (Integrated Geometallurgical Simulation)

To mitigate risk and optimize your plant, we offer you the Integrated Geometallurgical Simulator (IGS) tool. IGS simulates comminution and flotation circuits either separately or as combined processes. Using previously determined results from bankable SGS comminution and metallurgical test work, IGS enables you to easily see how changes made to any part of your grinding or flotation circuit will affect your overall performance. IGS can be used for a variety of purposes including plant design and scenario testing, energy optimization and production forecasting.

Once you have completed the necessary SGS testwork to obtain the required input parameters, you can simulate your existing comminution and/or flotation circuits using IGS.

You can manipulate your operating conditions, perform basic circuit layout changes and see how these changes affect the circuits and final product quality. Such modeling will allow you to make decisions that will ensure that your operations run at peak efficiency. IGS enables a geostatistically sound mill and flotation circuit design with optimized equipment selection and an accurate prediction of power consumption.

Upon downloading the IGS software, you can draw and configure your circuit based on two data types:

Operational data: This is day-to-day information that you gather from your plant.

For comminution circuits, these include:

Circuit configuration

Installed power

Grate and screen sizes

Average circulating load

Average mill load

For flotation circuits, these include:

Circuit configuration

Cell sizing

Operating parameters

Ore characterization: These are the input parameters determined from your samples using SGS testwork.

For your flotation circuit, these data would be mineralogical and mineral flotation tests results from:

MFT tests

Cleaner Flotation tests

Locked Cycle tests

Bulk Mineral Analysis (BMA)

Particle Mineral Analysis (PMA)

Specific Mineral Search (SMS)

Required tests vary according to your specific requirements (Greenfield or brownfield design, optimization or production forecasting). On-going development work can require additional tests or different types of tests depending on the technology.

SGS provides training workshops to teach you how to use IGS software. These include interpretation and validation of the results. These can be one-on-one and group sessions between you and SGS staff.

Partner with SGS today and run your plant at optimum efficiency with our IGS tool.